A chance conversation with a neighbour led to a Wexford man receiving an invitation from the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to honour his grandfather, an Irish War of Independence veteran and Volunteer in the 1916 Rising , at Easter Sunday ceremonies at the GPO in Dublin for the first time.
Regarded as a great soldier of Ireland even by his opponents in the Civil War, General Liam Lynch s death on April 10, 1923, is being commemorated with a new biography, art exhibition and parades with bands from Argentina and the US